The Fourth Amendment guarantees that every person shall be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." This means government agents cannot enter ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...

I revisit the crack-ridden, murderous capital of Indiana because while history isn’t repeating itself, it is rhyming.

Part of the Murthy v. Missouri challengers' claim is that the First Amendment bans the government from even "substantially encouraging" private entities to block user speech. And as I noted in the ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is often an outspoken supporter of the Second Amendment. But this week, the sheriff is wading into debate over a different constitutional right — the ...

In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 called the right to be left alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly There is no shortage of ...

Fourth Amendment rights and religious freedom were the main arguments during a court hearing in the legal battle over migrant documents between the Texas Attorney General's Office and El Paso's ...

The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I believe I know where ...

The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in May, the Court delivered a 9–0 decision that left civil libertarians ...

Do cryptocurrency exchange records reveal a similar level of detail about a person's life as cellphone location data does? That's the question judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ...